Office of the Historian

811.20 Defense(M)Colombia/463: Telegram

The Ambassador in Colombia (Lane) to the Secretary of State

Bogotá, January 19, 1943—8 p.m.
[Received January 20—12:25 a.m.]

132. Reference my number 119, January 18, 7 p.m.37 Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs today handed me informal memorandum stating that representatives of the Governments of Colombia and of the United States of America have discussed following bases for an exchange of views between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of the United States of America in Bogotá:

[Here follows text of informal memorandum.39]

Acting Minister stated that if our Government is in agreement in principle with the foregoing Colombian Government will address to us a note along the foregoing lines to which we would answer that we are in agreement.40

Please telegraph urgently Department’s views so that there may be the least delay possible.

Lane
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. For substance of the provisions of the memorandum and the position of the State Department and the Rubber Reserve Company on each, see telegram No. 96, January 24, 1 p.m., to the Ambassador in Colombia, p. 22.↩
  3. See note from the Ambassador in Colombia to the Colombian Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, February 2, p. 26, and footnote 59, p. 28.↩